Mufti Menk – Can You Imagine Such Generosity
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A former Uthman at the time of the internet bubble is talking about a story about a caravan of Uthman and a group of men who wanted to buy from the company. The group donated a load of food to the muslimeen, and they were offered 100% profit. The group was surprised by the amount of money they were given, but eventually they were able to buy from the company.
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Uthman ibn Affan, at the time of
Umar ibn Khattab
something interesting happened.
This is a very touching story.
Very touching.
There came a year of drought,
where it was known as Amur Ramada.
It was the time of Amir mumineena Umar
Bul Khatab
The drought was so severe that the people
were hungry. They were literally dying of hunger.
And Umar ibn Khattab
told him, Pray to Allah, pray for rain,
and so on. That day,
that day,
people had heard that there is a great
caravan of Uthman coming from the northern of
part of the peninsula. And it has in
it a lot of food, and a lot
of
provision.
And sometime later in the afternoon, a huge
caravan consisting of 1,000 camels
pitched up into Madinah Munawah,
and it
literally stopped at the door of Uthmal Abni
Afan
A load of camels, and the people had
come out, and they started helping getting the
produce down, and all the merchandise, most of
it was actually food stuff.
And Uthman ibn Affan emerged, and the businessmen
of Madinah Munawrah who had the money,
they emerged and they said, Oh Uthman, we
want to buy from you. The people are
dying of hunger. We want to buy from
you, from this food. We will give you
for every dirham that you spent, 2 dirhams.
Which means we give you 100% profit.
He said, No. I someone has offered me
more. So they said, Okay. We give you
more.
He said, No, someone has offered me even
more. So they said, Okay, we will give
you even more.
And they continued, he said, Sorry, Someone has
offered me more than whatever you people have
offered. They said, It cannot be. We are
the business people of Madinah Munawwara.
We know. We are the 1st to come
to you. Who else has spoken to you?
Nobody would be foolish to give you so
much. He said, Allah has promised me that
He will multiply
it 10 fold for me.
They looked at him shocked. They said, What
do you mean?
He said,
I make you witness that all these 1,000
camels you see here,
I have donated them for the muslimeen. They
can have them. I don't want a single
dirham or dinar. This is between me and
Allah. You people may have this.
This was Uthman ibn Affan. 1,000 camel loads
of food, and he just donated it just
like that. Imagine containers
of goods coming in, and you say, This
is for fuqara'ul muslimeem. This is for the
people who are needy. Whoever needs it, come
and take from it. Don't worry. This is
yours. This was Uthman al Niafan, the great
hero, the man who spent.
Subhanallah.